Target EIL Course Portal

Now you can learn the right words to help you learn the rest of the words.

It's an ongoing project, but we're off to a good start. Right now version 3.3 of Target EIL's exclusive Acquisitional Vocabulary List is available through the Course Portal.

AVL 3.3
Version 3.3 is a list of the Collins COBUILD Learner's Dictionary (Concise Edition)'s 3133 most frequent words in English. But we didn't stop with COBUILD's top 3133. We filtered the frequency list through the GEPT Basic, Intermediate and High-Intermediate word lists, then further graded our list using Dolch Sight Words, Ogden Basic English, the Longman Defining Vocabulary, the General Service List and the Academic Word List.

Our vocabulary engineer is busy at work expanding and refining the AVL, which we expect to grow to around 10,000 once he's added in the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary of American English, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Longman Advanced American Dictionary. But why wait? Get started now and be ready for more when it comes.

SFVS NUMPY or 0-4
Not only can you get the list; you can also take our in-house Subjective Familiarity Vocabulary Survey and get tailored instruction for the words you still need to learn. The survey is available in two versions: NUMPY and 0-4.

AVLL SFVS NUMPY is an Excel file with a set of five check boxes for each item in the AVL. Just print and start checking boxes. It's perfect for face-to-face classes, especially individual classes.

AVLL SFVS 0-4 is an Excel file with a single column for entering numerical scores. Each number corresponds to one of the letters in the printable version. The numerical scores allow instant sorting of your list by level of acquisition. It's perfect for online classes and for group classes in which data for more than one student needs to be correlated to help select target vocabulary for a variety of student vocabularies.

Preparing for a test? Just trying to improve your English for the job?

Target EIL means business with a flexible complex of business English oriented materials for you, the business English user.

Business Benchmark is a focused but comprehensive 3-level series for training in reading, writing, listening and speaking--and doubles as a BULATS preparations manual.
The Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence provides examples of clear, concise writing in the full range of business correspondence.		Essential BULATS gives important insights into the structure and content of Cambridge ESOL's Business Language Testing Service exam.
Business Vocabulary in Use teaches you the words you need to do business in English.
Grammar in Use teaches and reinforces important elements of English grammar.
Writing Successful Business Documents is a clear, concise and entertaining guide to clear, concise business writing in English.
Written specifically for English learners, the Business Skills series (Writing Skills, Presentations, Meetings and Negotiations) gives concise and clearly illustrated pointers on four essential aspects of business in any language.

British
American

Ever wonder where your grammar went?

It's not uncommon for students to cry "We learned that in high school!" when their teacher starts explaining why something the students wrote or said is wrong and how it should be corrected.

So why does this happen?

According to Dr. Stephen D. Krashen, professor emeritus, University of California,  when it comes to language, there's a difference between learning and acquiring. Essentially, we can learn pretty much anything at any time, but we have to acquire things at the right time. This means either figuring out what you should learn and when (a difficult task and one still being undertaken) or constantly reviewing, so that when you are ready to acquire what you learn, you are in the process of learning it.

To facilitate this method, Target EIL has selected a number of handy graded grammar textbooks, including Cambridge University Press's well-known and widely-used Grammar in Use series.

The series is divided into British and American English versions. The British vesion starts with Essential Grammar in Use (elementary to pre-intermediate) and continues with English Grammar in Use (intermediate to upper-intermediate) and Advanced Grammar in Use (upper-intermdiate, advanced, proficiency). The American version begins with Basic Grammar in Use (beginning to low intermediate) and continues with Grammar in Use (intermediate to high intermediate).

Use one version or combine both versions into a six-stage review.

Sandra Heyer's True Stories in the News series is designed for Beginning and Intermediate learners who wish to increase their vocabulary and improve their speaking and writing skills while reading entertaining stories about things that really happened.

Each unit of each book features a picture or set of pictures, a reading and a selection of spoken and written exercises to test comprehension and encourage self-expression.

Target EIL offers online, face-to-face and mixed-mode courses using each of these books.

Online writing is one thing, but what about online conversation?

Well, that's one of our next projects: bringing conversation class home to you without taking up space in your den.

Cambridge University Press's hit conversation series, Interchange, has just gone into it's third edition. New conversations, new graphics, new recordings.

All we need are you, your teacher, two copies of the book and a set of class CDs. You can get the book with (NT$620) or without (NT$550) student CDs for personal study. The teacher will broadcast the class CDs over the Internet and right into your speakers, just as if you had loaded them in your own CD-ROM drive.

Use Skype, MSN/Windows Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, NetMeeting--whatever you like. If we don't have it, we'll get it.